Center for the Study of the Islamic Republic Iran St. Petersburg State University “Collegium Iranicum”
Candidate of Sciences (equiv. Ph.D.) in Philosophy
Born 1980 in Moscow.
1997-2002 Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow, Faculty of Philosophy; 2002-2005 Post-graduate school at the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow (Institute of Oriental Cultures); 2006-2007 Post-graduate school at the People’s Friendship University of Russia in Moscow. The dissertation “The Philosophy of al-Hallaj” has been successfully defended at the People’s Friendship University of Russia in Moscow University under supervision of Prof. Maitham M. al-Janabi (2007)
Since 2002 Director of the Center of Iranian Studies in the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow;
Since 2013 Assistant professor of the Department of Modern East of the Faculty of History, Political Science and Law in the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow.
Subjects: Islamic philosophy, Persian language, Classical Arabic texts, Language of the Qur’an, Shi‘ism and Sufism in Iran, History of Iran, Pre-Islamic religion in Iran.
Pavel Basharin has more than 180 publications about Islamic mysticism, Islamic and Iranian demonology, Oriental manuscripts, Iranian languages and comparative linguistics.
Significant publications:
Demarcation of the Knowledge of Discourse and Intuition in Early Extatic Sufism (by the example of al-Hallaj's Philosophy) // Religion Studies. 1. Blagoveshensk, 2004. P. 31-45 (in Russian).
Ecstatic Sufism and its Evolution // Irano-slavica. Moscow, 2 (2004). P. 61-65 (in Russian).
On Kalila wa Dimna and Persian National Fairy Tales // Transoxiana 12 (2007) www.transoxiana.org/12/basharin-persian_fairytales.php
On the Problem of Making for al-Hallaj’s Hagiography // Rahmat-nama. Collection of papers in honour of Rahmat Rahimov on his 70th birthday. S. Petersburg, 2008. P. 47-80 (in Russian).
Conception of ana-l-Haqq by al-Hallaj and its Reflection into Following Sufi Tradition // Pax Islamica. 1/2008. P. 47-65 (in Russian).
Ossetic wæzdan and Provenance of uzden Class // Antiquity: Historical Knowledge and Source Specifics. Issue IV. Proceedings of the scientific conference dedicated to the memory of E.A. Grantovsky and D.S. Raevsky (December 14-16, 2009). Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2009. P. 23-25 (in Russian).
«Sacred Wars» in Islamic Demonology // Pax Islamica. 2/2009. P. 45-62 (in Russian).
Bahā’ al-Dīn’s Mazar Yesterday and Today // Central Asia. Tradition under Changes. Vol. 2. St. Petersburg, 2010. P. 281-322 (in collaboration with Yu. Averyanov) (in Russian).
Exegesis of the Qur’anic qaba qawsayn in the Tradition of Muslim Mysticism // Pax Islamica. 1-2/2012. P. 29-42.
Akkadian, Hebrew and Arabic Loanwords in Aramaic Ideograms in Pahlavi // Commentationes Iranicae. Collection of papers in honour of Vladimir Livshits on his 90th birthday. St. Petersburg, 2013. P, 143-156.
On the Status of Mahdist Movements in the Tenth Century Middle East and their Connection to the Political Struggle in the Caliphate // Pax Islamica 2/7 (2011). P. 156−181; 1/10 (2013). P. 83-121 (in Russian).
Sufism among Tadjiks // Tadjiks: History, Culture and Society, ed. by R. Rahimov. St. Petersburg, 2014 (in collaboration with Yuri Averyanov). P. 158-190 (in Russian).
al-Daybuli (al-Dabili) // Encyclopaedia of Islam, 3rd edition, Leid., 2014. Vol. 4. P. 68-69.
Relations between Human and Divine Natures in Iranian Sufi Tradition (Chapter XIII) // Philosophy and Spirituality across Cultures and Civilizations / ed. N. Kirabayev, Yu. Pochta, R. Pskhu. Washington (D.C.): The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2014. P. 119-133 (Russian Philosophical Studies, VII).
The Problem of Incarnation in Post-Hallājian Iranian Sufi Tradition // Thoughts & Wisdom of Some Immortal Persian Poets with Special Reference to Sa’adi, Hafiz, Khayyam & Rumi and its Relevance in the 21th Century A.D. / Ed. R. Ahmed. New Delhi: Royal Publisher & Distributors, 2015, P. 8-18.
The Problem of Indian Influence on Early Sufism // Proceedings of Three Day International Seminar on Cultural Exchange between India, Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan and Central Asia: Contribution of Scholars, Sufis and Poets / Ed. R. Ahmed. New Delhi: Royal Publisher & Distributors, 2016. P. 41-52.
The Problem of Free Will and Predestination in the Light of Satan’s Justification in Early Sufism // English Language Notes (2018) No 56 (1). Р. 119-138.
Jinn's Image in Islamic Magic // In Umbra No 8 (2019). P. 106-151 (in Russian).
The Institution of Zoroastrian Marriage xwēdōdah: The Problems of Genesis and the Questions of Typology // Religiovedenie No 1 (2021). P. 5-14 (in Russian).
The Images of the Demons in the Persian Ramayana of the Frier Gallery // In Umbra No 9 (2021). P. 110-146 (in Russian).
From Testimony to Martyrdom šāhid and šahīd in early Muslim Exegesis and ḥadīth // Oriens No 1 (2021). P. 118-129 (in Russian).
Proto-Indo-Iranian and Proto Iranian Language Contacts with Proto-North Caucasian // Proceedings of the Eighth European Conference of Iranian Studies (State Hermitage Museum and Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, St Petersburg, 14–19 September 2015). Volume I: Studies on Pre-Islamic Iran and on Historical Linguistics. St Petersburg: State Hermitage Publishers, 2019. Р. 30-46.
Pre-Islamic Concept of Jinn: Epigraphic Evidences // Antiquity: Historical Knowledge and Source Specifics. Issue VIII. Proceedings of the scientific conference dedicated to the memory of E.A. Grantovsky and D.S. Raevsky (November 26–27, 2019) / Ed. by Galina Yu. Kolganova and Vladimir Yu. Shelestin. Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2021. P. 23-38 (in Russian).
Judeo-Arabic Literature from the Abraham Firkovich Collection of the National Library of Russia in St. Petersburg // Manuscripta Orientalia No 27/2 (2021) P. 27-37.
The Demonic Horse in Iranian Tradition // In Umbra No 10 (2021). P. 267-279 (in Russian).
Iranian Loanwords for Weapon in Uralic Languages // Dādestān ī Dēnīg. Festschrift for Mahmoud Jaafari-Dehaghi. / ed. by A. Shayeste Doust. Teheran: Farhang Moaser, 2022. P. 37-61.
The Ṣūfī School of Baghdād (Chapter 19) // Baghdād: From Its Beginnings to the 14th Century / ed. by J. Scheiner, I. Toral. Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2022. P. 633-681.
Some publications are accessible here: https://rggu.academia.edu/PavelBasharin
